Asian Immigrant Women Advocates Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 942977665
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Oakland, CA, USA
- Phone
- 5102680192
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Ethnic, Immigrant Centers
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $346,450
- Expenses
- $326,303
- Assets
- $1,586,851
- Liabilities
- $12,574
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Latika Malkani (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Young Shin (Executive Dir.): $28,257 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Asian Immigrant Women Advocates empowers low-income, limited English speaking immigrant women and youth through education, leadership development and civic participation programs.
What it reported doing in 2024
Leadership ProgramsAIWAs leadership programs include leadership development trainings, committee participation, and public speaking opportunities. These initiatives provide intensive experiences that enable women and youth to develop skills and reinvest their efforts into low-income immigrant communities.In 2024, senior trainers resumed AIWAs longstanding leadership training series while addressing the ongoing post-pandemic challenges of in-person engagement. Thirteen home care workers participated in a training that explored the history of civil rights and immigration movements, language rights, community organizing, and grassroots leadership development. Participant feedback included: I gained a deeper understanding of AIWAs goals and the fight for equality. Through the training, I learned about civil rights movements and the power of unity.As part of AIWAs commitment to workplace safety, 15 Chinese and Nepali immigrant women were trained as peer trainers on worker fatigue prevention. Following their training, they conducted outreach both in-person and onlinereaching over 200 immigrant workers and business owners with information on labor rights and practical prevention strategies.Women leaders continued organizing through active participation in various Member Committees. At monthly meetings, they refined training skills, coordinated community outreach, discussed safety initiatives, and evaluated and planned AIWA programs.Youth leaders in the Youth Build Immigrant Power (YBIP) program facilitated peer leadership trainings on topics such as language justice, patriarchy, homophobia, immigration history, and community organizing. Following the 10-week Asian Youth United workshop serieswhich deepened political understanding among 20 immigrant youthYBIP welcomed four new youth leaders for the year
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 57
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 82.1%; rating input score 82
- Program expense ratio: 76.6%; rating input score 77
- Fundraising efficiency: $30.51 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 5.8%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.86; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.7%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.3% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.7% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 82.1% of revenue deployed · 76.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 3 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $250K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $28K · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2015 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 52/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 30/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 47/100.